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What is workplace bullying?
Answer:
Workplace bullying is when a person or people in a workplace treat another worker unfairly. It can use many different tactics including abuse and humiliation, often in very cunning ways, often using the rules and traditions of the workplace to conceal their bullying.
Most countries and states now have laws about safe workplaces, which include being safe physically and psychologically for the workers, so people being bullied are now able to stand up for their rights by going to management and even to the police and to the courts of the country.
The Law Society of New South Wales, Australia has offered the following definition of bullying:
Unreasonable and inappropriate workplace behaviour includes bullying, which comprises behaviour which intimidates, offends, degrades, insults or humiliates an employee possibly in front of co-workers, clients or customers and which includes physical or psychological behaviour.
Most countries and states now have laws about safe workplaces, which include being safe physically and psychologically for the workers, so people being bullied are now able to stand up for their rights by going to management and even to the police and to the courts of the country.
The Law Society of New South Wales, Australia has offered the following definition of bullying:
Unreasonable and inappropriate workplace behaviour includes bullying, which comprises behaviour which intimidates, offends, degrades, insults or humiliates an employee possibly in front of co-workers, clients or customers and which includes physical or psychological behaviour.
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